It's another boring day, I lay on the chaise longue as usual, wrapped in a thick warm coat, in a blink of an eye it was the depths of winter, the cold wind lingered in the yard, fortunately today is a sunny day, the sky is clear, the warm sun shrouds to expel some coolness, in the Hidden Moon Hall for more than four months, like a dead pool of water, can not stir up the slightest ripple.

I didn't talk much for a few days, and the two maids changed their ways to make me happy, but I was blocked back by a sentence of "talking too much", so I had to silence in front of me, and the Hidden Moon Hall was so empty that it was even quieter and unpopular.

When Long Xiao came over, I was asleep, the maid wanted to wake me up by his glare, frightened, he waved his hand and signaled them to retreat away from me, not to disturb me, and he saw that I was still frowning in my sleep, and I was not sleeping peacefully, and I couldn't help but reach out to smooth the folds between my forehead.

He secretly asked the Imperial Doctor to add sleeping herbs to my decoction, but it didn't work, I was getting thinner and thinner, the clothes that had fitted were getting wider, Long Tuo and Yunying came to chat with me several times, and brought a lot of delicious food, I either couldn't raise my interest or couldn't eat a few bites, my chest was blocked, and my spirit was not high.

I don't think of Li Xuan very often, I used to complain about him, thinking that he loved me but abandoned me, and did not hesitate to let me fall into the hands of Long Xiao in order to take care of the overall situation and stabilize power, just like hiding from me before, I didn't know anything about his plans and ambitions, and I was passive and hurt.

In the four months since we separated, except for the note that Long Xiao handed me by himself, there was not a word, he seemed to have disappeared so that I could not feel his existence, if it were not for the palace people calling me the princess, I seemed to think it was a long dream.

For me, Li Xuan is indeed a real dream.

From the time he was given to marry me, and after the marriage he did not agree with me, we were really together for only a short year.

I never dreamed of him holding a cold sword in his hand again, only the darkness in my dreams was so thick that I couldn't dissolve, I couldn't breathe, I didn't even understand why I still lived, why did I live? It's like a voice in my heart that wants to break through the shackles, but it is always suppressed at the last moment.

I subconsciously gathered the blanket covering my body, if Li Xuan was here, I wouldn't feel this coldness.

"Sister, wake up, sister-don't sleep, wake up."

There was Long Tuo's anxious cry in his ears, this kid would pull Yunying over at two ends in three days, and he simply regarded the Hidden Moon Hall as the back garden of his eighth prince, all kinds of big and small, very naughty. Am I not dying, and I am guilty of calling me out so loudly?

The eyelids were unusually heavy, and the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Long Tuo's little face full of tears, which made people feel distressed: "Sister, you can wake up, don't sleep for so long in the future, I'm afraid I'll never see you again." ”

At his age, my heart was like a mirror, and I couldn't help but sink for a while, and I struggled to spit out one word: "Good." ”

Only to find that the sky was dark, Yun Ying and the two servants all knelt on the ground, one of them bit his lip to death, the corners of his lips were bleeding and swollen, and the cheeks of the three of them were full of horizontal and vertical palm prints, shocking, they didn't dare to look up at me, Chen Fu and Imperial Doctor Zhang were standing next to me, and when I saw them, I also understood what was happening, and I held up my spirit and said coldly: "I ask myself about harmless hearts, but I have been repeatedly plotted, who is plotting to harm me, I must die and refuse to say, or the other party will hold your handle, Don't worry that you will confess him. ”

I thought for a while, and said slowly: "Just ask Gonggong Chen to execute a few of them with sticks, and have the right to bring news to the person who murdered me, otherwise I, Princess Xuan, is really too easy to bully." ”

Chen Fu has always been an interesting person, and I was obviously angry, and he immediately took the errand: "The slave will do it." ”

On the one hand, she is the wife of an important minister of the court, and on the other hand, she is an unknown palace maid, do you still need to weigh which is more important? That one saw something unusual, but he lost his sense of proportion, and the timing was not appropriate, how could the emperor be the only one in the palace who understood? He didn't help anyone, and someone had a headache at that time.

When I was tortured, the two maids couldn't hold back, thinking that I was always angry, and there was no evidence to help them, so I would rather kill by mistake than let go, and immediately sat down on the ground, sobbing quietly, and Yun Ying didn't say a word, only Long Tuo hurriedly stood up and pleaded: "Sister, the person who harmed you won't be Yun Ying, she is not that kind of person, please don't kill her, don't let her die." ”

I looked at it coldly: "Is it what matters to her?" She's reduced to a pawn, can't you see it? ”

"Your mother has been dead for many years, what is the taste of the horseshoe cake she made herself, how much can you remember when you are young? Don't you think it's strange that Cloud Shadow can make the flavor you remember? An ordinary palace maid was transferred by the emperor to serve by my side, but I am Princess Xuan, and her identity is also noble, she serves with all her heart, but she deliberately let me know that your master and servant are deeply affectionate, and let me loosen my mouth and let her go back to you, is it really just a coincidence? ”

"She didn't hurt you at the moment because the time has not come, and your dependence on her is what she wants most."

In my words, the body of the cloud shadow kneeling on the ground was shocked, and her head hung lower, it is not a bad thing for her to be close to Long Tuo, but the fault is that she spent undue thoughts on Long Tuo.

This kind of coincidence falls in the eyes of those who have a heart, and it is indispensable to use it, Long Tuo is now just a prince who can't control the general trend, and when he is crowned a prince one day, Yunying is bound to become a pawn in the competition between all forces, which is not a good thing for her and Long Tuo.

Long Tuo's eyes widened, obviously unable to accept what I said so bluntly, but with his cleverness and early wisdom, he quickly understood my intentions, and compared to Yunying's sincerity to him, he still pleaded in a low voice: "Sister, I still don't want her to die." ”

I sighed lightly, I couldn't bear to hurt this child's heart, and suddenly it was not easy to let go of a person who had been with me for many years, so I said: "Then leave her alive, Gonggong Chen, you will arrange for her to be transferred away from the Eighth Prince." If the emperor asked, he would say that it was my idea. ”

I didn't even take one last look at Yunying: "Whether it's a raccoon or a sweep, don't appear in front of the Eighth Prince again, otherwise you will never get rid of the fate of becoming a chess piece; If you have the mind of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, don't let people notice, protecting yourself is more important than anything else. ”

Yun Ying lowered his head indifferently, bowed to me, and choked up: "Thank you for mentioning it, and the slave maid should keep it in mind." ”

She has always been smart, and if she can really listen to my words, she will be safe in the palace for the rest of her life.

Chen Fu took these three people away, one of them cried and pleaded with me and was knocked unconscious by the guards, and the guards had to drag them away by brute force.

Thinking that I almost died because of them, Long Tuo looked indifferent, he will face many similar scenes in the future, this time as a lesson, so that he can't trust the people around him.

As soon as I took a post of medicine decocted by Imperial Physician Zhang, my mind was still clear, and the palace people reported that the emperor had arrived, and I didn't bother to raise my eyes to look until Long Xiao approached and sat down in front of me, and I was still hesitating to eat a candied fruit to remove the bitterness in my mouth.

It wasn't the first time he came back from the Hidden Moon Palace, he was complacent, and he seemed to be in a good mood: "Chen Fu told me today that you ordered the execution of two palace maids. ”

"Hmm." He is the emperor, and what happened in the palace has not been hidden from him, and I have no intention of hiding it.

He raised his eyebrows with interest and said deliberately, "When did I give you such power?" Executing the palace maid privately, what kind of rumors will be attracted if it spreads, can't you think of it? Relying on the power of your husband and being pampered and willful, how many ugly words will you hear, have you ever thought about it? ”

The only thing that has changed me in these days in the palace is that I have been polished into a good temper, I used to be sneered at by him, I couldn't rush up and beat him up, but after being depressed for a long time, I lost this impulse, my heart was like water, and I was not so easily provoked by him.

And since the last time he was accidentally injured by Long Tuo and saw him standing in the distance, almost since then, he has been less malicious towards me, and occasionally come to sit with me, we can still talk a few words, and it is absolutely impossible to change it before.

I picked a plum and stuffed it into my mouth: "My death is small, and it is not a pity to die to separate the feelings of the emperor and King Xuan." Let Yun Ying leave the Eighth Prince, and the emperor should be happy to see his success. ”

"Oh?"

It was clearly his bureau, but it was the same as if it was nothing, and he was clean: "Although the person who wants to harm me is hiding in the shadows, it is probably not the first time to do it, who is the most suspicious, the emperor naturally knows in his heart." This matter is over, not so much that the emperor is not worthy of a thorough investigation for me, but that the emperor is still waiting for a better time. ”

He pondered my words and said meaningfully: "Qin Xi, you have changed. ”

Unfortunately, the mouth was too bitter, but the bitter taste of the sweet and sour plum covered the sweet and sour taste, and I frowned: "It's changed, because I don't want to be stupidly used by people who are greedy for power." I believed in Chu Hong, but he made me a laughing stock and ruined my relationship with Li Xuan; I trusted Xiao Ye and regarded her as my own sister, and she had to borrow my hand to put Li Xuan to death even when she died; I was sincere enough to invite the sunken fish, and she forced me to fall overboard when I was unsuspecting. ”

"I will never forget the feeling of the lake being cold to my bones that day. What I have no intention of fighting for, I have been put in danger several times, and I will not be so stupid and expose myself to danger again. ”

The words were confided without reservation, and the originally heavy heart felt a lot better, these words were originally intended to be said to Li Xuan, but it was Long Xiao who heard them by chance.

He had a clear smile on his face, but his words were colder than the lake: "Today's matter, I will let her know that this is my palace, my Great Qi, no matter who wants to play tricks under my nose, I will not be soft." ”

I swallowed the soft plum, I couldn't relax, the once hazy guess was confirmed by Long Xiao's attitude, and the warmth I felt in the Fengyi Palace on the woman who was the mother of the world was now scattered with the wind, leaving only the coldness.

Xu started very early, and the young couple of the emperor and queen looked like they were separated from each other, and they had their own hearts. The young love is deeply mixed with power disputes and gradually changes the taste, leaving only respectful respect, when the emperor pays attention to his pillow person, only he knows.

I was decadent at this time, and I didn't want to say more, but Long Xiao said: "I haven't eaten yet, what do you have to eat here?" ”

I saw that it was all dark outside, and at this time he was left in vain to arouse people's reverie, and he couldn't see him proud, so he directly issued an eviction order: "You go all the way out, find a palace at will, there are more people to serve you for dinner, I have a small temple here, I can't afford to provide you with this big Buddha, and I won't send it every night." ”

Who knew that he would not leave: "I can't stay in my own palace, tonight I still have to eat in the Hidden Moon Palace, come here, and prepare dinner." ”

As soon as he gave an order, the palace people waiting outside hurriedly drove around, lest the lack of service would affect the head on the neck, and the Hidden Moon Hall would jump in a single sentence, and I gave him a blank look: "Isn't the emperor afraid that I will find an opportunity to tell her what you said?" ”

He looked confident: "Qin Xi, maybe even you don't realize your coldness, people you don't care about, it's superfluous for you to even look at him more, such as Chu Hong." Everything you do, no matter how much notoriety you bear, as long as it is for Li Xuan, you will definitely do it at any cost. Although he is a little stupid, he has a bit of a true temperament. ”

I didn't bother to pay attention to him, and I wanted to get up and say: "Then you can sit here alone and eat slowly, you can eat as long as you want, and I will not accompany you." ”

He turned to pull the corner of my sleeve, with a bit of sincerity: "You also sit down and eat some, King Xuan is a general when he is out fighting, and I will not cut his use, but you are so thin that you can't help but look like you, how can you see him then?" ”